Lectures about upholding our institutions and protecting democracy, but just as often, they find a way to undertake some new reckless attack against the courts and rule of law. Im proud of how our nations highest court has weathered these latest baseless attempts to attack its authority. I believe in the integrity and honesty of all nine justices all nine of them. They should pay the partisan grandstanding no mind at all. This meeting of the Senate Judiciary committee will come to order. Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee Considers the topic of Supreme Court Ethics Reform. Being a federal judge is a position of great honor and power, but above all, it is Public Service. We entrust judges with administering equal justice under the law. It is critical to our democracy that the American People have confidence that judges cannot be bought or influenced and that they are serving the public interest, not their own personal interests. Over the course of several decades, congress and the Ju
Ramaswamy and talking and remarks. Please help me welcome vivek ramaswamy. [applause] thank you. Its an honor to be here. I recognize the team for putting this on. I chose to be here for a reason. For delivering the speech that we are about to today. I think this will be quite possibly the most consequential speech about how we will get this shutting down the Administrative State. The reason i wanted to recognize many of the people in the audience today is you have been on the leading edge of this fight. This is not an individual sport. This is a team sport. There will be no political messiah coming from the white house to save us. We will save ourselves and that is the mentality i respect about this institute. And i thank brook for leading this great institute. Thank you, brook. I want to kick this off on a reflection on National Unity. We are deeply divided as a country today. And i think the way to summon both Political Parties and get to National Unity is through compromise. It wou
[inaudible conversations] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We will do a little bit of the front end and hopefully will take care of the business quickly and i know people have other meanings and it will move to the hearing itself. We think our witnesses for allowing us to do this and were glad youre here. We have a number of items on the agenda today ander we will movea number of nominations and Foreign Service officer led and will also take up as 1928, multilateral act of 2017. I want to think senator coons for his leadership and hard work on this bill. L. I want to also recognize isaacson, rubio, young, cain and merkley for their contributions to thisct bipartisan important legislation for the committee. This bill will establish a process for conducting injected reviews on how well multilateral institutions carry out their missions with our funding, the authorities after review. Eleven years. Through this process we will be able to evaluate their performance
To conduct its business i will maintain the core of. That means if there is any disorder or demonstration by a member of the audience that person causing the destruction will be escorted from the room by the capital police. First, i would like to welcome the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency, scott pruitt for your tax money today. With respect to todays hearings we will abide by the committees fiveminute rule for length of member questions in the first round. Time permitting we will also have a twominute second round of questions until 12 30 when administrative pruitt has to leave the building. Of course, members will have the ability to submit written questions to administrator pruitt for the record. Todays hearing is to examine the epas record today after the first year of the administration. The Environmental Protection agency under the leadership of administrator pruitt has been doing the hard work of protecting the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the com
Weve seen him in the room. The Ranking Member is tom carper of delaware. And youre watching live coverage on cspan. Now, good morning. I call this hearing to order. We have quite a full house today. I welcome the audience. This is a formal Senate Hearing in order to allow the committee to conduct its business. Im going to maintain decorum. That means, if theres any disorder or demonstration by a member of the audience, that person causing the disruption will be escorted from the room by the capitol police. First, id like to welcome the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency, the honorable scott pruitt to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for your testimony today. With respect to todays hearings, were going to abide by the committees fiveminute rule for length of member questions in the first round. Time permitting, we will also have a twominute second round of questions until 12 30, when administrator pruitt has to leave the building. Now of course, member